- plural of evil.
evils
Example Sentences
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A wary Tinseltown reluctantly coalesced around the Netflix bid, seeing it as the lesser of two evils, but Paramount's willingness to stump up ever greater sums eventually saw the streamer withdraw.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
Also, I am afraid your columns do not sufficiently extol the value of work, which Voltaire rightly claimed protects us from the evils of boredom, vice, and poverty.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
It encapsulates the well-founded belief that starting a war is likely to create unforeseen evils greater than the evil of the status quo.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026
Bobi Wine defended Ampe, saying he was using social media to "expose corruption, abuse of power, oppression of lower ranking officers and other evils within the Uganda Prisons Service".
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2025
After Jocasta’s death and all the evils that came with it, Oedipus lived on in Thebes while his children were growing up.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
